Core 3

Question 1

Emerging Middle Class

Answer 1

People that had previously been considered lower class but are now qualifying for middle class due to prospering economies

Question 2

Ecological Footprint

Answer 2

The hypothetical area of land required by a person or community to sustain their use of natural resources

Question 3

Bio Capacity

Answer 3

The biocapacity or biological capacity of an ecosystem is an estimate of its production of certain biological materials such as natural resources, and its absorption and filtering of other materials such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Question 4

Energy Security

Answer 4

Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption.

Question 5

Nexus

Answer 5

A connection linking a series of things e.g: water, agriculture and electricity

Question 6

Resource stewardship

Answer 6

Resource stewardship is the appropriate allocation of resources

Question 7

Malthusian Theory

Answer 7

The theory states that food production will not be able to keep up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease, famine, war, and calamity

Question 8

Domestic waste

Answer 8

Household waste, also known as domestic waste or residential waste, is disposable materials generated by households.

Question 9

Consumer waste

Answer 9

Consumer waste is a type of waste produced by the end consumer of a material stream; that is, where the waste-producing use did not involve the production of another product.

Question 10

Rubbish tips

Answer 10

Where people bring waste that they can’t put into regular bins like old computers etc…

Question 11

Recycling

Answer 11

Turning waste into something new and usable

Question 12

Composting

Answer 12

Turning organic matter like food waste into fertilizer for plants

Question 13

Landfill

Answer 13

Dumping waste into a designated area

Question 14

Incineration

Answer 14

Burning waste

Question 15

Energy from Waste (EFW)

Answer 15

Burning waste to create steam for energy

Question 16

E-waste

Answer 16

Electronic waste: laptops etc

Question 17

Carrying capacity

Answer 17

The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available

Question 18

Overpopulation

Answer 18

Overpopulation is when there are too many people for the land (over the carrying capacity)

Question 19

Underpopulation

Answer 19

Under population is when there are few people for the land (under the carrying capacity)

Question 20

Optimum population

Answer 20

The optimum population is the perfect balance between the number of people and the number of resources in an area. This is extremely difficult to attain as the population is fickle and can fluctuate quickly as well as other external disasters like natural disasters which could affect resourced and population

Question 21

Maximum sustainable yield

Answer 21

The most amount of resources that can be harvested from the land without damaging the area and that allows for future yield of the same quantity

Question 22

Sustainable development

Answer 22

Development that doesn’t have negative effects on the environment

Question 23

Remanufacturing

Answer 23

The rebuilding of a product to specifications of the original manufactured product using a combination of reused, repaired and new part

Question 24

The 4 global commons

Answer 24

• The Seas
• The Atmosphere
• The Antarctica
• Outer space

Question 25

Circular economy

Answer 25

A circular economy is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources

Question 26

Linear Economy

Answer 26

The approach of linear economy involves the process of collection of raw material for transformation of them into finished goods and distribution to the customer until they are accumulated as waste